Ransomware Now Shows Up in Nearly Half of All Breaches: A Survival Playbook for Lean Security Teams 2026-08-10 at 15:44 By Ashish Khaitan Ransomware stopped being an isolated incident type in 2025. It became the dominant force behind the modern breach landscape, and the ransomware data breach statistics from Cyble’s own tracking make the shift […]
New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA 2026-08-10 at 15:25 By Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had
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New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks 2026-08-10 at 14:44 By Eduard Kovacs Hackers linked to Iran targeted industrial control systems (ICS) at water facilities in at least a dozen US states. The post New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from
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N-able ships second N-central hotfix as attackers keep exploiting CVE-2026-18577 2026-08-10 at 14:34 By Zeljka Zorz To help customers fend off ongoing attacks, N-able released a second security hotfix for N‑central, its monitoring and management (RMM) solution popular with managed service providers (MSPs). “Hotfix 2 is required, even if you already applied the earlier hotfix.
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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg pushes positive AI message, calls for open-source approach to beat China 2026-08-10 at 13:59 By Ariel Zilber Amid AI doomerism, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his attempt at positive messaging about the tech in a new manifesto while calling on Washington to lower barriers for US open-source developers to help them
Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility 2026-08-10 at 13:01 By Eduard Kovacs CERT.PL said this appears to be the first instance of a private APN being used as an attack vector. The post Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article
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OpenAI risks White House relationship with hiring of ‘nuisance’ AI policy executive: sources 2026-08-10 at 13:00 By Thomas Barrabi Ball infuriated Trump AI officials last month after claiming that the White House should create “regulatory risk” — or new rules imposing consequences on US firms — to discourage use of Chinese AI models. This article
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability 2026-08-10 at 12:31 By Ionut Arghire The critical-severity flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Anthropic to put AI in charge of reviewing Claude Code actions by default 2026-08-10 at 12:13 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic will make auto mode in Claude Code the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14. Users who previously selected a different default may receive a one-time prompt asking whether
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The Crime Began Well Before the Breach 2026-08-10 at 12:00 By The image most security professionals still carry of perimeter crime is the opportunist: the actor who spots an open gate, grabs what is within reach, and flees. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack 2026-08-10 at 11:55 By Ionut Arghire Using social engineering, a threat actor accessed the computers of three employees and exfiltrated data from them. The post Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials 2026-08-10 at 10:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below – helper-beeps.solidity-pro web3devtoolsx.solidity-pro Although
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UK regulators to prepare tokenized gold framework: Report 2026-08-10 at 10:25 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The UK’s FCA is reportedly preparing a regulatory framework for tokenized gold and how these products may be used as collateral assets in wholesale markets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities 2026-08-10 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot rule out the model reaching the critical capability level for cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework. The
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GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems 2026-08-10 at 10:01 By Mirko Zorz GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because GitHub’s malware detection only ever watched one ecosystem. That changed this month.
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Modern Wireless-First Security Solutions Deliver Multiple Benefits for Mixed-Use Properties 2026-08-10 at 10:00 By The most common longstanding security and safety challenges of mixed-use properties generally fall into 4 categories. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause 2026-08-10 at 08:50 By OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the
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Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain 2026-08-10 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Chainloop is an open source evidence store for the software supply chain. A command line tool runs inside a GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Dagger pipeline, picks up what the build produced, uploads those files to content-addressable
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Product showcase: Enpass Password Manager breaks away from the proprietary cloud model 2026-08-10 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enpass is a password manager that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, identities, secure notes, software licenses, and other sensitive information in encrypted vaults. Vaults remain on the device or in a cloud storage service selected by the
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Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People 2026-08-10 at 07:44 By Eduard Kovacs The vulnerabilities affected software used by eight of Belgium’s ten largest banks and over 60 government agencies. The post Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article
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